"Conrad Schneiker/Austin/Contr/IBM" <schneik / us.ibm.com> writes:

> [...CygWin Ruby installation woes...]

Maybe it's worth while taking a step back from the details of getting
Ruby (installation) to work in the Cygnus Win32 environment and
consider CygWin from the standpoint of, well, Ruby world domination.

Would Perl have the Win32 penetration it has without the ActiveState
native port?

Would Emacs have the Win32 penetration it has without the NTEmacs
port?

If the answers to the above are no and no, then should Ruby's future
on Win32 OSes (and possibly its future, period) be yoked to Cygnus?

/Lew, who uses Unix when he gets a chance:-)
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